Events...

Here are our bookclub meeting dates for 2010:

Contemporary Fiction - 3rd Tuesdays: 9/21, 10/19, 11/16
Reading the World Summer Book Club - 3rd Wednesdays - June 16, July 21, August 18 6PM
Good Living Cookbook Club - 2nd Mondays: currently on sabbatical - resumes Sept 2010
Spirituality Book Discussion Group - 1st Thursdays: Oct. 7, Nov. 4, Dec. 2
For more details, click on our Book Clubs link.

Saturday,September 11,2010 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Annual Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair Book Signing at Bookin' It
with featured guest: Children's Book Author and Illustrator,
NANCY CARLSON

Nancy Carlson is the author of dozens of books, many featuring Henry the Mouse. Her books are highly regarded by educators and we have worked for many years to arrange an event with her here at Bookin' It.

For more information about Nancy Carlson, visit www.nancycarlson.com

Sunday,September 12,2010, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Annual Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair Book Signing at Bookin' It with Candace Simar

"Endlessly fascinating...The ultimate 'I was there' book. I have read many books about Scandinavians coming to America in the turbulent 1860s, but thanks to author Candace Simar, this is the first time I was ever transported from my easy chair right into the book to experience it with them. The images of courage, cruelty, intolerance, discovery, and simple pleasures have stayed with me. This is one book I won't forget." - Jack Koblas author of the Let Them Eat Grass Trilogy and numerous books on the Northfield Bank Raid and the James Younger Gang

“I read Pomme De Terre with the greatest interest and enjoyment. It’s a very vivid telling of this tragic American story. I’ve long been wanting something in fiction about the Great Sioux Uprising, and this book is the best I’ve seen.” - Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Lonesome Dove

Possible Book Signing with William Kent Krueger
His newest book, Vermillion Drift, comes out in September
and we are working on scheduling him to sign books for our Annual Holiday Open House and Anniversary Celebration.

Possible Book Signing with Author/Illustrator Greg Budig
check back for date in November or December

Greg Budig does for Winter what he did for Fall in I Hear the Wind. In his words and illustrations, he leads the reader through woods, fields and snow-covered streets to the tempo of a world made white. While written for children, this winter walk will captivate people of all ages.

Santa Parade, Friday, November 26, 2010

Kids, meet Tacky the Penguin, star of the much-loved series by Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger

Author Event Follow-up Notes:

Annual Little Falls Arts & Crafts Fair Book Signing A Success! On Saturday, September 12, author Brian Duren signed nearly a case of his debut novel, Whiteout.

Jess Lourey was featured on the August 28th Reading Minnesota Blog at http://readingminnesota.blogspot.com

Children's book author Matt Goldman who was scheduled to join us for the 2009 Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair Book Signing was unable to attend becuase he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work as a producer on the Disney Channel's The Wizards of Waverly Place and the award ceremony for his category was during the afternoon on Saturday September 12th. We've now learned that he WON!

Although Matt Goldman was not able to be with us as scheduled, he did stop by an supply us with handful of signed copies of Dingeltrot and also some of the biggest promotional bookmarks on the planet! Available with purchase while supplies last.

William Meissner's SPIRITS IN THE GRASS won the Midwest Book Award last spring (for the fiction novel category)--a 12 state award sponsored by the Midwest Independent Publishers Assn. Meissner was one of our visiting authors for the 2008 Arts and Crafts Fair Book signing.

Thomas Maltman who visited Bookin' It this past holiday season was just awarded the ALA Alex Award 2008 for his book The Night Birds. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Alex Awards are given to ten adult books with specific teen appeal. The Night Birds is now available in trade paperback.

The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman was among St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Books of 2007; Rocky Mountain News lists Maltman as the Best First Time Novelist of 2007.

“Maltman weaves this gripping story around real events that resulted in the mass execution of 38 Dakota Indians in 1862.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A remarkably poignant narrative in time, an elegant portrayal of a period little known in American history.”—Rocky Mountain News

Jess Lourey who signed her Murder-By-Month Mystery series books at Bookin' It during the 2007 Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair reported in to us on her most recent award. Lourey's Knee High by the Fourth of July was nominated for a Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery of 2007.

Minnesota Mystery Writer Monica Ferris at Linden Hill for the first 2008 Author Tea Retreat. Over 40 guests attended the four course Tea.

Monica's Needlework Mysteries:

Crewel World
Framed In Lace
A Stitch In Time
Unraveled Sleeve
A Murderous Yarn
Hanging by a Thread
Cutwork
Crewel Yule
Embroidered Truths
Sins and Needles
Knitting Bones
Thai Die

Free Needlework Pattern
included in each book.